Claude Ballse:Hey, how come we can't have a Malt Liquor, or Fortified Wine Snob thread?

I never really farked with St. Ides; Colt or Blue Bull were the way to go. Perhaps a nice Hurricane to celebrate a stormy day. As far as wines, Thunderbird all the way. The red makes for a violent night.

Anheuser-Busch (now InBev) did the same thing. I wouldn't be surprised if the regional soda bottlers were able to do the same thing. They have the canning/bottling equipment and large water supplies; switching from beer/soda/whatever to basic bottled water is easy enough. Just make a run of the appropriate labels, throw a few switches, and you're now making disaster relief supplies.

Every time there was some kind of major disaster, the local news (here in St. Louis) always had some kind of story about how A-B was doing a run of water for the disaster victims. Easy enough, costs them damn near nothing, and is good PR.

ultraholland:Claude Ballse: Hey, how come we can't have a Malt Liquor, or Fortified Wine Snob thread?

I never really farked with St. Ides; Colt or Blue Bull were the way to go. Perhaps a nice Hurricane to celebrate a stormy day. As far as wines, Thunderbird all the way. The red makes for a violent night.

I never had it until I won a 12-pack from a radio call-in in college. It was so much better than Coors Light, and so we entered it into regular band-rehearsal rotation. We classed it up, though, called it merely: Banquette, just like calling High Life Champagne.

There are 2 sides to every beer isle folks: the good half and the I can't afford good beer half. Those that prefer the latter are either kidding themselves to feel better about drinking sub-par beer or they simply refuse to aquire a taste for good beer because they know they can't afford it.

The Fark Knight:There are 2 sides to every beer isle folks: the good half and the I can't afford good beer half. Those that prefer the latter are either kidding themselves to feel better about drinking sub-par beer or they simply refuse to aquire a taste for good beer because they know they can't afford it.

Anyone can afford to buy good beer if they buy it to enjoy instead of buying it to get drunk. You don't sit down to a six-pack if you're drinking it to enjoy, you sit down to one or two.

Scutter:Anyone can afford to buy good beer if they buy it to enjoy instead of buying it to get drunk. You don't sit down to a six-pack if you're drinking it to enjoy, you sit down to one or two.

I dunno, there was a dude in the last beer snob thread (Business tab, yesterday) that complained that a 4-pack of DFH 120 IPA would barely give him a good buzz. What the Faulk? That stuff knocks everyone I know on their ass, as well it should. Just switch to pounding everclear already!

Scutter:The Fark Knight: There are 2 sides to every beer isle folks: the good half and the I can't afford good beer half. Those that prefer the latter are either kidding themselves to feel better about drinking sub-par beer or they simply refuse to aquire a taste for good beer because they know they can't afford it.

Anyone can afford to buy good beer if they buy it to enjoy instead of buying it to get drunk. You don't sit down to a six-pack if you're drinking it to enjoy, you sit down to one or two.

This. Exactly.

If the end goal of drinking beer is to get blasted by swilling one after another, then any cheap shiat will do. The beer is only serving as an alcohol delivery system. You don't give a shiat about the taste or lack thereof- it doesn't matter that it smells like goat piss, because you won't notice as you guzzle the swill.

If the end goal of drinking beer is to enjoy a good beverage, you won't be chugging one after the other as fast as you can. You'll tend to nurse them longer, sipping the beer, not taking big swallows. You don't care if it takes you 20-30 minutes to finish it because you're enjoying it.

Joe Six Pack is drinking whatever he can buy cheaply and in volume because he just wants to get drunk.